To mark the region with the keyboard, place the cursor at the beginning of the text you want to mark, press
Ctrl+Space
, and move the cursor to the end of the region you want to mark,
using keyboard commands to do so
. Unlike marking with the mouse, this does not highlight the region.

Because the Editor does not highlight the marked region when you use keyboard commands, a useful Emacs key to remember is
Ctrl+X Ctrl+X
. Pressing this exchanges the current cursor position with the start of the marked region and highlights the region. Press
Ctrl+X Ctrl+X
a second time to return the cursor to its original position and leave the region marked.

Press
Ctrl+G
(or
Esc
in Microsoft Windows emulation) to remove the highlighting in a region.